Jeff Winke

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Concrete Equipment & Products
US Route 67 Reroute Benefits from Machine Automation
Concrete paver uses Topcon GPS machine control to ensure accurate grade, no wasted material on 26-ft.-wide highway
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Asphalt
Paving Contractor Earns $605,000 in Smooth Pavement Bonuses, Finishes Project One Year Ahead of Schedule
Material Transfer Vehicle helps Knife River finish a two-year interstate repaving project in one construction season and achieve International Roughness Index scores of 29, which was 26 points below that highest acceptable level for the project
The Montana I-90 rehab project required a total of 165,000 tons of HMA with approximately one-third of that being RAP. Knife River placed three lifts. The bottom lift was three-tenths thick and the top two layers were each 15-hundredths.
Asphalt Pavers
Continuous Paving Prevents Asphalt Mix Segregation on Runway Project
The Roadtec SB-2500 Shuttle Buggy helps United Companies place 23,000 tons of FAA-spec hot-mix asphalt with continuous paving and keeping the material mixed and at the right temperature
United Companies paved a 650-ft. by 320-ft. apron and a 1,200-ft.-long by 50-ft.-wide taxiway in addition to the runway.
Machine Grade Control, GPS, Laser & Other
Grade Control Technology Saves Contractor One Month During Landfill Construction
John Deere and Komatsu crawler dozers equipped with Topcon 3D-MC2 GPS machine control helped contractor Summers-Taylor achieve mandated tight tolerances for construction of a new landfill cell
The 24-in. layer of leachate collection stone was the last layer, which was placed on top of 60-mm-thick High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) sheet.
Asphalt
Roadtec Paver Helps Iowa Contractor Achieve Strong IRI Scores on Highway Paving Project
RoadTec RP-195e helps Norris Asphalt Paving achieve profilograph-measured 12.61 to 12.9 International Roughness Index (IRI) scores on a 16-mile highway resurfacing project in Iowa
Norris Asphalt Paving had an 11-person crew on the six-week Iowa Highway 92 project, which began at the end of May 2014. The company was responsible for the paving portion of the highway rehab.
Asphalt
Renovate, Recycle, Restore
The 3 Rs of California State Highway 137
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Construction Technology
Laser Scanner Adds Precision to Construction of Rainwater Diversion Structure
Contractor used a Topcon robotic total station to set control points throughout a worksite as a basis for registering its 3D laser scanner point cloud data
The new wet weather reservoir and wet well is a large in-ground concrete structure that measures 215 by 165 by 30 ft. deep. The concrete walls are 2.5 to 3 ft. thick, and the base measures 4 ft. thick.
Asphalt
Brazilian Contractor Uses Cold-in-Place Recycling in Major Highway Rehab
A train consisting of a water truck, emulsion tanker truck, cold planer, mobile recycle trailer, paver, steel roller compactor and rubber tire compactor used cold-in-place recycling to rehab and repave a Brazilian highway
The roadwork train consisted of a water truck in front, emulsion tanker truck, Roadtec RX-900e cold planer, Roadtec RT-500 mobile recycle trailer, a Caterpillar paver, a Cat steel roller compactor and a Cat rubber tire compactor.
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